TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH 5.30 – 7.00PM CAFFE L’AFFARE 27 College St, WellingtonRSVP NOW Be inspired & empowered. Find out how your choices make a real difference. Join us as we welcome banana farmer Wilson Sanchez & his daughter Kelly to New Zealand for the first time. We’ll show you how consumers buying All Good Fairtrade Certified Bananas, have helped to change the lives of Wilson … Continue reading lac-news Join Fairtrade farmer who grows your bananas TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH 5.30 CAFFE L’AFFARE 27 Colle ge St, Wellington

Monday, November 4, 7.30pm, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd Grey Lynn, Auckland Florent Eurisouke and his uncle Jojo are from a prominent Kanak family from the province of Houailou on the east coast of Grande Terre, the large island of New Caledonia, Kanaky. Their people’s ancestral tribal land includes the rugged and nickel rich Cap Boccage, a peninsula appropriated in the 19th century by … Continue reading Forum Mon: Kanak activists talk environmental protest and independence

2013 Jesson Lecture – Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause 2013 Bruce Jesson Lecture:Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause The speaker, a Distinguished Fellow at the Law School at The University of Auckland, argues that the gross inequality in income and wealth which besets New Zealand is the outcome of the neo-liberal economic measures of … Continue reading Tonight: 2013 Jesson Lecture – Sir Edmund Thomas – Reducing Inequality: A Strategy for a Cause

Had enough of the secrecy of the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement the proposed mega-deal for foreign corporations? So have a number of prominent Kiwi actors, musicians and commentators – Don McGlashan, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Russell Brown, Michele A’Court, Julia Deans, Moana Maniapoto, Michael Hurst, Willy Jackson, Te Radar and Simon Prast. They have made a video calling for the government to release the TPPA … Continue reading Join Kiwi celebs call for release of the TPPA text. Sign the petition NOW!

Protest. Meeting 4.00 pm this Wednesday 16th, outside the main entrance to the Maidment Theatre, Auckland University Quad, Alfred St, to then protest outside Fonterra’s Headquarters in Princes St. Fonterra’s has applied to open a coal mine 60km south of Auckland. A decision on the mine will be made in the next two days. It is likely to be approved because key issues of climate … Continue reading Auckland Coal Action 4pm today

NEVER FORGET: OCT 15TH SOLIDARITY TOUR Public event commemorating the events that occurred on October 15th 2007, the police raids that attacked whanau around Aotearoa and especially in RuÄ toki. On Monday, October 15th 2007, more than 300 police carried out dawn raids on dozens of houses all over Aotearoa / New Zealand as part of “Operation 8”. Police claimed the raaids were in response … Continue reading NEVER FORGET: OCT 15TH SOLIDARITY TOUR

New Leader of the Labour Party, David Cunliffe MANA Vice-President, Annette Sykes. Green Party Co-Leader, Russel Norman and Anti GCSB-Activist, Valerie Morse join -Seeby Woodhouse founder of Orcon -Professor Jane Kelsey International law expert -John Minto from Global Peace and Justice -Thomas Beagle from Tech Liberty -Vikram Kumar CEO of Mega The enabling law to the GCSB Bill is the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) … Continue reading Anti-GCSB Coalition presents new speakers @ Wellington urgent public meeting to stop TICS Bill